Word: kindergartening
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Fyodorov, a former engineer, is the CEO of a company that sells everything from Twix candy bars to $80,000 Jaguars. His well-guarded headquarters, a suite of offices stylishly caparisoned in halogen lamps, marble tiles and tastefully understated artwork, occupies several floors of a converted kindergarten on Marshal Zhukov Street. Scurrying around the cubicles is a multilingual staff that manages Fyodorov's advertising firm, his home-security company, his men's clothing shop and his private day-care company (which supervises the offspring of wealthy jet-setters for $300 a day). Fyodorov's other enterprises include Wild Orchid...
...didn't pretend to be more humble than he was; his mother Eunice, a hospital orderly, recalls that even before he went to kindergarten, he would tell her that "someday you're going to read about me." But not, surely, as one of the greatest sports heroes of his generation. For him and his friends growing up, the path to prison looked short and straight. They hung out in the San Francisco projects, stoning cars, fighting, getting hauled into juvenile hall. "I only beat up dudes who deserved it," he once said, "at least once a week, usually on Friday...
...tell you stories of an angst-ridden childhood. She can't tell you how she published her first lyric at the age of six, or how she struck out on her own after kindergarten, or how she spent her adolescence in a suburban wasteland, misunderstood by her peers. Though she's a poet and, she admits, most poets come from such dramatic beginnings, Tracy K. Smith '94 never enjoyed these fruits of misery...
...view is that we came to Harvard to gain knowledge and to learn to achieve at a high level. Everything else we needed to know...we learned in kindergarten...
Nowhere are neo-Nazi outbursts more unsettling than in Germany. In one week in May, German authorities recorded the beating of a Zairian asylum seeker in Halle, the torching of a Turkish kindergarten near Bonn, the vandalizing of a Jewish cemetery near Wurzburg, five arson fires at a refugee shelter in Hauzenberg and the arrests of 26 neo-Nazis for chanting "Sieg Heil!" during a party in a Berlin suburb. Such occurrences have become so commonplace they rarely make the front pages and are simply considered a routine part of the German political landscape...